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Mon, 09 Oct 2017 07:47:17 GMTHumanity has reached the stars, thanks to a hydrogen fission generator that could be fueled by sea water or skimming gas giants, artificial gravity...Humanity has reached the stars, thanks to a hydrogen fission generator that could be fueled by sea water or skimming gas giants, artificial gravity plating, and a working warp drive. The UN Space Agency (UN Spacy) was created to oversee human colonization of extraterrestrial worlds.

Colonists were selected, trained, and loaded onto massive colony ships and were taken to distant worlds found to be inhabitable. The first colonies built massive round structures in the style of China's Fujian Tulou. To watch over each colony, a governor was appointed by the Colonization board.

Private ships began to be built, at first by merchants seeking to profit from the new colonies, and then by groups seeking to colonize their own worlds, better known as the Second Wave. Travelling farther out, they established themselves on worlds past over as sub-optimal by the Colonization Board.

The First Worlds began to complain about unfair trade tariffs with Earth, who pointed out part of the tariffs were to pay back some of the costs of colonization and colonial management, as well as assisting the desperate unemployed people left on Earth.
The First Worlds disagreed, stating firmly that all colonization costs had been paid back several times over and they could do without Earth governors. As to the unemployed people of Earth, the colonists felt they would be better served by doing some hard work rather than depend on a handout.

The Colonization Board's response to their threats of independence arrived months later - colony ships filled with the poor, unwashed and unemployed of Earth - no training, no equipment, just promises of a better life in the colonies. This move had the First Worlds reeling as they tried to find shelter for them all, and facing the prospect of more arriving in the months to follow.

This Third Wave, however, had little training or skills useful on a developing world, nor were many of them willing to work. Unhappy, the newcomers began to riot, leading to violent clashes as the First Worlds struggled to maintain control.
On Sparta, a new sports arena the city had built on behest of the governer was opened during the rioting. Seeing it as the start of the Spartans meeting their demands, the rioters flooded into the statium, only to encounter the fledging Spartan Self-Defense Force. Rioters were ordered to disarm themselves - and when they refused, the Spartans opened fire. Hundreds died that day.

Earth's response to this armed rebellion was to send in the UN Spacy Peacekeepers to wrestle control of the First Worlds back under their authority. The Colonial War was short, brutal, and ultimately a failure, with the rebel leaders killed or imprisoned.
And then Earth began casting its eyes on the Second Wave colonies, seeing a need to bring the independents into line.

Donovan's Hangover is past the edge of Earth-controlled space, mostly rocks and asteroids with one gas giant and some gas dwarfs. At the beginning of the Colonial War, an independent mining company brought in three cylinders in orbit of the gas giant. These were the nucleus of a mining station - ore refinery, fuel refinery, and a factory module. By the time they were operational, the war was over. Rather than shutting down, they decided to expand, adding new cylinders and defenses. Five years following the war, Donovan Station is the place to go for illegal goods for the thirteen colonies, be it weapons, ships, or stolen property.

But just because it has a reputation of being a pirate station doesn't mean you shouldn't behave yourself there.

[Rules]
*There are no captured Peacekeeper ships and trying to bring one to Donovan Station would result in its immediate destruction.
*There are no capital ships among the pirates - no dreadnoughts, no battleships, no cruisers, no destroyers. Instead they have modified small merchantmen ships, illegally armed. Pirate ships tend to work in pairs or small groups.
*Large ships are to be avoided as the defenses will trigger on anything over the expected size.
*Smuggler ships are also modified small merchantmen ships but without weapons. Most have small warp signature pods that can be launched to confuse ships that try to intercept them.
*No alien intelligent life has been found among the 13 colonies, although there are alien animals.
*Energy weapons are unheard of. It's all conventional slug throwers and missiles.
*The station has several bars from the Captain's Den for the higher ranking officers to the dockside dives that cater to anyone who can pay.
*There are fees aboard the station - if you cannot pay your fees, your ship and possessions are forfeit and you may find yourself exiled to the one inhabitable world in Donovan's Hangover - a water world. It's best to stay in the shallows, where the mangroves are thick. The open waters of Blue Drop are notorious for large creatures.
*This is a casual game, so you can post a basic introduction and start playing. Any violation of the rules above will get you banned from this game.

"What's the situation, Carl?" inquired a tall, dark man, dressed in black.
"Mr. Pierce, we're tracking a few inbound ships, Night's Dream and The Shame of Space."
"Why are they on route?"
"The Shame of Space was damaged by a Peacekeeper ship, they're making arrangements with one of the orbiting shipyards for repairs," Carl replied. "Night's Dream has some passengers and looking to score some weapons and supplies for the Sparta Underground."
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Sun, 08 Oct 2017 03:03:27 GMTSoooo, rebooting this to see if I have the same success I had with it before, which was miiiiiiiighty good.
*Lockdown at Cordova!*
Cordova...Soooo, rebooting this to see if I have the same success I had with it before, which was miiiiiiiighty good.

Lockdown at Cordova!

Cordova was like any other normal High School. The kids complained about being bored and the teachers complained about the misbehaving students. It had been this way for eons and all assumed it would remain this way for years to come. That all changed however one autumn day when it was least expected.

Meridian and Mataiya were prime examples of what best friends were like. They met in second grade in Chase elementary school. By their Senior year of High School nothing had changed, they were still best friends. Stopping in the hallway after their Spanish class, they gossiped about Meridian’s latest crush and Mataiya’s ex boyfriend.

“Don’t forget we’re meeting after class to walk to Drama together, Meri!” Mataiya yelled after Meri as she rushed into class.

“I’ll be here, Taiya, see ya then!” Grinning and stopping in the middle of the classroom, Meri quickly darted back to the doorway, sticking her head out into the hallway to respond.

Mataiya went on into her Chemistry class and slid into her normal chair. While she was in class, Meridian was asking to use the restroom. Since the teacher wasn’t that bright, he excused her and giggling, Meri ran into the bathroom. Although the students noticed she never returned, the teacher just ignored it.

After class, Mataiya walked over to where they were supposed to be meeting and waited until the tardy bell rang for the next class. Frowning, she ran to the Drama classroom and after letting the teacher know, ran for the bathroom. The door opened with a squeaking noise and Mataiya walked in only to stop in horror. In the floor beside the first set of stalls was Meridian. Her body had been ripped to shreds, most of her guts and organs were lying on the ground beside a pool of blood. There was blood all over the walls along with huge scratch marks.

Screaming, Mataiya ran to the office to tell them of her horrific discovery. That very minute, a loud screeching noise blasted across the PA system. Just as abruptly as it started, the noise stopped but the silence didn’t last long. Every exit, window, and doors that would lead outside seemed to implode before completely disappearing. The students, teachers, administrators, and security officers were trapped inside the one place they felt was safe. Screaming erupted across the school and three classrooms filled with students and teachers were found gutted the same way Meridian had been. The rest were trapped with something that was killing off them all off. The two main questions that formed in everyone single person’s mind was in regard to what was doing the killings and how they were going to escape.

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][OOC: Okay, the point of this RPG is simple. It takes place in our world [on Earth] in the normal time period [20th century]. You’re either going to be a student, teacher, or other faculty type person, such as a security officer, or even a cook. The phone lines are down and there’s no contact with the outside world, not even e-mail, or cell phones. You can’t just bust out through the walls even though they were once like every day cement based school walls. Since all the doors, windows, and anything else that leads outside are gone, there’s no escaping the school in a normal way. To clarify, the doors heading into the classrooms, library, auditorium, etc., are not gone, just the ones that lead outside. The vents that run above the school still open up into each classroom and restroom but they do not lead outside, they just end.

The school is basically like a normal high school in a large city. The school itself is three stories high; basement, main floor, and a second floor. It has the huge commons area in the middle of the school where the students can eat snack foods while socializing during passing periods and allotted breaks. The commons area is filled with round tables that fill up the football field sized room. Ten feet down from the commons area is the lunchroom that also has round tables as well as square tables. The lunchroom is based on an Ala Carte system though the students still have a chance to have regular school lunch. There is everything imaginable on the buffet style tables and the students don’t pay until they have filled their trays. On the left side of the lunch room is the main kitchen where the lunch ladies make the meals.

There is a large auditorium on the west side of the school that was built to resemble an old gothic looking churchlike auditorium. It has painted glass panes that give the church a little light without having the hanging chandeliers lights on. A wood beam juts out beneath each of the window and perched upon the beam is an angelic figurine. The auditorium is on the main floor and the balcony part is up on the second floor. At the very front of the auditorium is the stage area and like all stages, has a trap door, which leads into the basement. The chairs are theatre style chairs that rock ever so slightly. They are black and red, alternating to go with the gothic feel of the church.

The school has a library on the east side of the school that has four doors leading into it. It is not just on the main floor, but it goes up to the second floor as well. The library houses every book imaginable and has computers stationed all around for easy net connections for research projects. The resource books, magazines, newspaper, and old microfiche articles are all upstairs on both sides of the library. There is a restroom upstairs as well, along with more computers.

There’s a huge roundhouse gymnasium on the south side, main floor of the school. The gymnasium has circle seating above the floor and can hold up to a couple thousand people. Hanging above the seating is banners, which state the accomplishments of the school in regard to sports. On each side of the gym high above the seating hang the two scoreboards.

On the north side of the school, main floor are the main administrative offices. Inside the huge administrative office are the offices of the principal, assistant principal, the four secretaries, the two counselor offices, the nurse, as well as the person responsible for paying everyone employed by the school district. Also, inside of the administrative office is the security station, which houses the few security officers employed by the district. Beside the security station is the teacher’s workroom where the mailboxes reside and where the copier, laminator, and other miscellaneous equipment reside. Directly beside the administrative is the smaller gym, used mainly for the second PE classes and practices. The smaller gym has pull out pink plastic bleachers for additional seating during games or other programs.

The entire basement is filled with storage rooms, a furnace room and a maze of corridors off limits to the students. Part of the basement area beneath the auditorium is used frequently and that’s storage for the Drama Theatre class and plays. Another part of the basement that is used is beneath the roundhouse gymnasium. It is used for the wrestling room as well as the weightlifting room and exercise room.

**PM ME IF YOU WANT TO BE THE MONSTER.**

OH, RULES.

.::.RS rules apply.
.::.Profiles are not necessary, but you may use one if you want. Please post at the beginning of your post whether or not you’re a student/teacher/other faculty member.

Student .::.Mataiya Callahan.::.

Breathe… just breathe Mataiya… It’s just a dream. Only a dream… it has to be. Despite the thoughts careening in her mind, the senior couldn’t help but doubt them. How could it be a dream when the bathroom had been filled with so much carnage? Her dark brown oculars closed for a mere moment as the mind within attempted to make sense out of the insanity.

Upon opening up the chocolate orbs, Mataiya figured it wasn’t an illusion but an actuality. Her entire corporeal form hadn’t moved from the front of the office and for a moment it seemed as if she was floating in a daze. With a shake of her noodle, Mataiya snapped to attention. Once realizing that Principal Lewis had instructed everyone to remain in their classrooms, the class ditcher determined if it was wise to leave the administrative offices to return to Drama class or not.

You should go back. Mr. Tyler is probably worried about you and it would be detrimental if he came out and wound up being slaughtered while looking for your sorry ass. Just go… stop being a coward and go. But maybe you’re safe here with people. If you go out of this office whatever did the squealing and caused all those kids to scream could be out there waiting… The incoherent babble wasn’t helping matters and for a moment, Mataiya marveled whether or not she was unbalanced.

A soft whimper slipped out of her velvety pink lips as she disputed internally with herself. At last a decision was made though now it was unknown if it was a wise conclusion. Sliding a pale slender hand up through her thick dark brown hair to push it back away from her equally pale face, Mataiya moved towards the main door of the office. Knowing that through this door would be a hallway that would eventually split into another series of corridors; a deep breath was taken through her slightly parted mouth. Without wasting anymore time, the athlete placed a few digits on the knob portion of the door. Every second that passed made it increasingly difficult to go through with the plan she had devised, but nothing else could be done.

“Just go, Mataiya!” The lean wrist twisted ever so slightly to allow the knob to turn so that the door slowly opened. Wrinkling up her nose before walking out of the office, brown eyes moved from one end of the corridor to the other. Once determining that it was safe, at least for a moment, Mataiya began to take small steps towards the Drama classroom.

The black boots she happened to be wearing made soft thumping noises on the cream colored tile flooring. As she passed beneath the lights hanging from the ceiling, each reflection seemed to bounce off the red lenses perched upon her hair. Even though it was against school policy to wear a jacket or coat during school hours while inside the building, Mataiya couldn’t help but wear her metallic blue long coat. Maybe it was the rebel inside of the normally perfect athlete trying to get out or perhaps it was that she just didn’t care. Despite the reasoning behind her madness, it swished against her body as she walked.

“Mrr… no sweat…” Her eyes shifted towards each classroom and deep in her gut it became apparent that she had no idea which rooms were filled with slaughtered students. Shuddering at the thought that was causing her stomach to quiver, Mataiya slid a hand across the butterfly tattoo on the right side of her waistline and followed it into the tail part of her dragon tattoo.

It soon became crystal clear that the silence of the overbearing school was becoming too much for her normal peppy self and with a quick glance up and down the barren walls, Mataiya ran towards the stairwell that would on a normal basis lead up to another level. However, she had no intention of going upstairs, not now at least. What she wanted was a place to hide and the darkness beneath the stairs was quite appealing. Pulling her tall body up in a slight crouch, Mataiya pressed her back against the wall. Hoping upon hope that someone would come by soon, someone that wasn’t a killer that is, Mataiya kept her eyes peeled for any signs of life.

Should have stayed in bed…
]]>Faithyhttp://www.animeleague.net/forum/showthread.php?116515-Lockdown-at-Cordova-Open-and-stuff!The Underworld Arenahttp://www.animeleague.net/forum/showthread.php?116468-The-Underworld-Arena&goto=newpost
Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:12:57 GMTWELCOME TO THE UNDERWORLD!
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Before you lies a stadium in ruins. Rising from all sides is a tall, spiry mountain range. The sky...

WELCOME TO THE UNDERWORLD!

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Before you lies a stadium in ruins. Rising from all sides is a tall, spiry mountain range. The sky above is always a crimson red, and the ambiance is pierced with torturous screams of the fallen. Echoing from this solemn canyon comes a scratchy, grainy voice.

"COME ONE; COME ALL! ALL FIGHTERS, FROM HEAVEN AND HELL, AND ALL POINTS BETWEEN, ARE WELCOME TO COMPETE IN THIS TOURNAMENT OF SKILL AND DEATH!"

The fallen angel Azrael presides over the underworld tournament, held the month of each All-hallows Eve. For the first time in centuries, the tournament has been opened to those outside of the Underworld.

The rules are simple.

There will be two brackets.

The Hades bracket is for seasoned writers who will subscribe to the Impulse sparring system of Roleplayer's Sanctuary.

The Demons bracket is for seasoned and novice writers alike, and will use the Simple Two-Action sparring system.

A single player may submit up to two characters, one for each bracket.

A panel of judges will preside over the contest.

Remember, this is all in fun, and respect should be given to all involved parties.

Have fun!

Since the two battle systems are new, a rehashing of the rules follows.

First, the Impulse system.

Spoiler:

A host (i.e., an RS Mod or Assistant) shall sponsor the event.

A panel of three judges shall judge the posts on the criteria listed below. Obviously, judges cannot participate in the fights. Since judges have to be common for all fights in a tournament, judges cannot compete in a tournament at all.

A total of three (3) actions shall be taken by both parties.

A word count limit shall be placed upon the set. All tournament posts shall be in the range of 300 to 1000 words. Posts outside of this range are not disqualified, but they will be penalized in the final judging.

The goal of the sparrers is not necessarily to kill or incapacitate the opponent (though it's possible and even likely that that will be the character's goal). The goal is to write a convincing and quality post that responds to the previous and is easy and fun to read. That's really it. Write a story, and make it enjoyable, believable, and well-written.

The sparring format shall be Semi-Consensual.

Semi-Consensual Sparring is a middle-ground between Consensual and Non-Consensual Sparring.

Consensual Sparring means that the opponent must consent to any attack upon them. This includes any liberties you may be tempted to take with their character. Effectively, you have zero control over your opponent's character. ALL attacks are written as cliffhangers. In some progressive formats, multiple attacks can be "queued up," but they still cannot be assumed to connect.

Non-Consensual Sparring means that you can unilaterally decide how the opponent reacts to your attacks. This isn't innately bad; with friends who are sparring in good nature, it may work out well. But all-too-often, too many liberties are taken with the opponent such that the opponent's character doesn't react in the way that that character would, or the defensive or evasive abilities of the opponent are misjudged. Often, this isn't done maliciously, but arguments can break out over it, and it undermines the spar if the contestants are arguing about actions via OOC.

Semi-Consenual Sparring, then, is the combination of both of these formats. Actions can be assumed to be carried out, provided that they don't inflict any injury on the opponent. Depending on the contestants and the environment in which they learned to spar, this can mean anything from a handshake to a light jab, but any stronger attacks must be left as cliffhangers, as with the Consensual method. However, more in line with the Non-Consensual method, the action usually progresses more quickly.

Once all agreed-upon posts are made, the posts will be scored on the following criteria:

Wordsmanship: This portion of the scoring refers to the quality of the writing itself. Nothing else is considered. Some questions to ask when scoring on quality could be:
Did the author use repetitive language? Conversely, did the author regurgitate a thesaurus on the post? Neither is desired.
Did the author use the proper spelling, syntax, grammar, and punctuation?
Did the author lay out the post using a logical structure? For example, did he summarize his perception of the previous action, then post his reaction to that action, and then post a new action for the opponent to discuss?

Description: This portion of the scoring is in regard to the details of the post. Does the author use an adequate degree of descriptive language to describe the actions, emotions, or sensations taken or experienced by the character? Is sufficient language present to remove any ambiguity from the post?
Also, is too much detail present in the post, such that it becomes a chore to read? There's a time and a place for everything.
More specifically, was the descriptive language laid out to maximum effect?
For instance, it may not be prudent to give a bunch of description to the way the clouds move out of the way of an attack and completely gloss over the impact is has on the landscape. In some cases, though, that might be appropriate. That's what the judges are for: to judge fairly and with context.

Realism: This portion of the scoring relates to the actions carried out within the post. Realism is used as a term to describe that a cause could create an effect, but not necessarily that it subscribes to the laws of the universe in which we as authors find ourselves. It's making a pseudo-logical argument for your action. Specifically, could the character have done what was written, within the confines of the world in which he finds himself? Why?

Originality: This portion of the scoring is intended to rate the departure from the normal. While there is a time and a place for a pure slug-fest, it's far more interesting to read (and, in my opinion, to write) a story where something unexpected occurs. Does the character use some environmental factor to great effect? Does the author take a moment to describe the impact the character has on the environment? Out-of-the-box thinking is credited here.

X-Factor: This is really the catch-all. It's impossible to predict all of the different things that could take place in a spar; the possibilities of the imagination are infinite. But sometimes, something deserves credit that doesn't fit neatly into one of the other four topics. Did the author have you rolling in laughter until you had a stitch in your side? Did the post in some way stand out as a paragon to the rest? Some degree of freedom is afforded here for the judges to record such things. Note that this may not get many (if any) points on most posts, and that's okay. If every post had an X-factor, then none of them would stand out, would they?

Each category is scored out of ten points. Each judge ranks each post individually out of a total of fifty points. The scores are then sent via blind ballot (i.e., private message) to the host, who averages the three scores for each post. In the case of a three-round spar, then, there is a total of 150 points available to each player. The Host will then declare the winner.

And the Simple Two-Attack sparring system:

Spoiler:

Three methods of Sparring

Consensual Sparring involves each player determining what actions and effects influence their characters.

Non-Consensual Sparring centers around each player determining their actions and how they impact other players' characters.

Semi-Consensual is a combination of the above two. Each player still decides which actions and outcomes influence their characters in a meaningful result. Insignificant effects on other players' characters are determined using the Non-consensual method.

Actions per Post

Two major actions for a character per post.

-Actions are something that gives a character an advantage of some sort in a post.
-Two attacks for example.
-Or one attack and one defense.
-Talking would be free because no advantage is gained by talking.

Actions by other players must be resolved.

-Meaning if a player receives two attacks in the previous post and wants to attack with two attacks instead of defending against those attacks the player must first resolve the two attacks without defending.
-They hit, determine the results.

A player gets 48 hours to post before he or she loses her actions, and the other player gets another post with two actions.

Judges and criteria for it should be determined ahead of time by the event, players, or thread creator.

Conflict should be resolved between players if possible, if not the thread creator then escalating up to RS Assistants and Moderators.

Standard RS rules apply:

Respect each other.

No Godmodding.

No Metagaming.

For signups, simply state which bracket (i.e., Hades or Demon) you're signing up for, and the bio for the character who is to compete. If you are signing up for both, submit both, each with a DIFFERENT character bio.

Character Bio:

Spoiler:

Character Name:

Character Description: Include in this area both their physical and psychological/emotional description.

Character Background: Closely linked to the description, provide a few words that describe why the character is who they are, and justify their motivation.

POWERS Powers are going to be reviewed by the host of the event and balanced, such that no character is more- or less-powered than another. As a rule, consider one major power and a two to three minor powers. Additionally, major powers often have some drawback, though depending on how your character stacks with the others, that may not strictly be necessary. Focus on making a believable character, and as long as it isn't Superman, you should be fine.

GEAR Gear is the outfitting that your character has. It should be balanced in tandem with the powers. Some characters get all of their powers from their gear, and some could go into battle naked and dominate. These two together balance to create a reasonable character.

Special Notes: Feel free to provide any additional information about your character.

Note that characters for this tournament should have some element to them that makes it believable that they are able to attend this tournament. Is your character a deceased champion, or is he an angel that has infiltrated Hell on a crusade for some goal? Or is your character just a mage with some sort of demented bent that draws them to the summons of the tournament? It's entirely up to you, but you should make us believe that your character belongs here.

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Sat, 30 Sep 2017 07:00:47 GMTOOC: You get one super power, student or not, and yes this is a college campus with dorms. No profile needed, just post. Mature content is allowed,...OOC: You get one super power, student or not, and yes this is a college campus with dorms. No profile needed, just post. Mature content is allowed, but please use spoiler tags. Returning students are encouraged to join from the year before.

IC: Welcome to Roland's University of Gifted Students, a new year. Everyone who attends this school has a super power. The Faculty is especially trained to use their super powers to handle their students if necessary. Though things got a little out of hand the previous year because the time continuum was disrupted among other things. With all that in the past, the principle, vice principle, and professors hope this year will be better. Everything's been remodeled too, and the damage from last year is no longer evident.
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Tue, 26 Sep 2017 19:34:37 GMTIn a world much like Earth, well not much like Earth at all except its round with land masses and large bodies of water. Now that we got that silly...In a world much like Earth, well not much like Earth at all except its round with land masses and large bodies of water. Now that we got that silly bit out of the way. It was a planet that contained the strangest of inhabitants or the most amazing depending on you view things. It had dragons and lots of them.

As you can imagine this world's advances were not the same as Earth's at all. I mean who wants a car when you can ride a dragon? Okay the toddlers and animals are mighty scared of the beasts, but most enjoy their dragons. There are many different kinds and they are breed by the major dragon breeding companies. Dragons were how people commute from one place to another. Most get around by breathing fire. Recent studies suggest that it has contributed to Global warming.

Apparently dragon fire creates carbon dioxides. Fire dragons are cooler looking, more powerful, and faster. Everyone is use to the idea of using dragons that breath fire. Now they are talking about using other breathing dragons so the environment will last longer and to slow down carbon dioxides deposited into the atmosphere. A hybrid dragon that breaths both fire and lightning has recently been introduced by the major dragon breeding companies. No one ever heard of a good lightning breathing dragon before. But maybe dragons that can breath both fire and lightning will work.

Lightning dragons have been around, they just couldn't fly, so they used them to power homes and run machinery in factories. One that can actually fly seemed like a marvel. Dragons powered everything in life, the people lived good and they had no problems keeping their many dragons feed so they could continue to live in luxury. However many problems in the world was starting to occur. Well some problems in the world were ongoing such as tyranny in third world regions of the world, where there weren't many dragons around. The advances dragons gave to people was gaining more recognition around the world everyday. It also seemed using dragons in such abundance was causing unforeseen problems.

Everyone thought was brilliant to use the dragon that breathed gas was used to fertilize fields and kill rodents and insects. Apparently plat life thrived under such conditions. World hunger was a thing of the pass for countries that used this advancement for growing crops. There were many other uses too, because there were dragons that commute information over distances. Before they merely communicated with each other. Now though they could use these dragons to send their own messages with their own baby dragon. No one knew how the breeders got the dragons to communicate in their languages to each other. They had figured it out though. The mothers of these dragons took the messages and sent them to the exact baby dragon you wanted no matter how far away. The dragonetwork was even created using them. Advances in how to breed them made them better and better. It was amazing what this world could do with their dragons.

One man though thought there was more then just dragon advances they could make, something that could solve their problems. Real solutions and not just turning to the great resource dragons represented in the world. He knew others had failed, and dragons proved superior to other advances almost every time.

Bazil was determined though to find a new solution that was not dragons. He researched ancient documents, and some mentioned a resource that rivaled dragons possibly. The question was how to tap into it or rediscover it. The ancient documents were over 5000 years old. They talked of electricity developed from water, air, the sun, and thermal. Just imagine being able to use natural resources on the planet for their advances.

Dragons lived and died and the more they were used the shorter their lives became. Something called frequency allowed these ancients to communicate over great distances. It was said a great ice age hit that wiped out that day's technology. According to the documents dragons had not existed before the ice age. So there was no telling which would prove superior, they had never been compared before. However, Bazil was close to tracking down some ancients or a city that still had them.

Apparently a few had even created an unimaginable device which could their lives in stasis and maintain them practically indefinitely. Bazil was on the verge of discovering where some of these pods were. He couldn't imagine what kind of knowledge they would hold of the past, what type of advances they had but were now lost.

Bazil of course had shared his findings and published them, but they were laughed at and he was dubbed insane and a lunatic. He was even barred from following his plans through by United Salamanders of the West. A country by most considered to be the most powerful country in the world or at least one of them. Their global economy was certainly was stronger than any other.

A month later, Bazil had unearthed capsules of the ancients. He opened it too see exactly who or what he'd find. The first capsules opened and though he knew it was ancient he didn't quite expect them to look so ordinary. They were human just like him.

[[OOC: If you like please join and wake up in this new world from your old world. Perhaps you can make something great, or just enjoy a world of dragons. No bio necessary.]]
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Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:00:18 GMT[OOC: Humans with Psychic abilities or not are acceptable characters, no bio needed]

Donner Shasta's home town was small, it had one of everything, though nothing was large, the population was 600. One day though in this quiet town, they found a 20 year old woman dead in the park, her name was Shasta. The police filed it as overdose because they found traces of drugs in her system that many young adults were using for recreational purposes. Shasta's family and friends disagreed but the evidence showed it was true.

Shasta woke up at dawn. Dew was stilling on the grass the scent of flowers was in the air. Weird, she thought, she never slept outdoors, always in her warm bed at home. In fact she remembered being at the town's festival, their little spring break fair. True she had been there late and the booths were setup here at the park. However, she couldn't remember going home. Shasta started to look around, and saw to her body laying before her. She realized it was hers. Panicking Shasta ran home, why not?

When Shasta reach her home, she saw her dad as usual pulling out of the driveway headed for work. He would stop for coffee first at the local Fast food and convenient store. Her mother would be home though, so went to hit the doorbell hoping against hope she was just hallucinating. However her finger slid right through the door, and the rest of her followed. Strangely her mother was not watching the morning news as she normally did. Shasta found her mother upstairs crying, she called out to her, but of course nothing. Shasta depressed realized she must indeed be dead. She saw no shining light or shadows trying to grasp her and hall her to hell. Everything seemed normal, but why? Shouldn't she see other ghosts? Are was death just lonely without any companions? Shasta crumbled to the ground and cried.

Unknown to Shasta, her mother Janet had called for an investigator from the city to find out what happened to her daughter, because she believed she had been murdered. The investigator was arriving that day, seven days after Shasta's death. Seven days after, Shasta witnessed her dead body and came back as a ghost, but by who's will? The investigator, Joe, felt this was a case that involved the paranormal so he brought some physics with him.
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Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:25:09 GMT[OOC: No bio is needed, but your first post should include your character's type and affiliation. No one is allowed to belong to the Nusaki Group]

A twisted world of corrupted politics eventually led to a break down in modern society. Despite that most of the world's modern structures have stayed intact. Merchants and Mercenary groups took over leadership by force. One could say the world was now in control by major cooperations. Each cooperation's focus was different however. Mergers did occur and so did cooperation break downs where several splintered groups emerged.

People at birth belonged to a major cooperation and some experiments to advance human biology also occurred as ethics changed depending on the cooperation. Some had cybernetic enhancements, others biological, in fact a few major types of people emerged as a result. Despite that most of the population are still humans with no differences then those today.

Vampires had super strength and superior speed, but they needed human blood to survive. Their aging process had also slowed, estimates were 90% slower, meaning they believed vampires could now live nine times as long. Vampires make up 7% of the population.

Werebeasts were mostly fur but largely remained human looking, the mammal they were mixed with was obvious because they gain their features. They were stronger than humans and have superior speed and reflexes. Their sense of smell and hearing were fantastic. Werebeasts needed more protein in their diets. Their aging process was unaltered. Werebeasts make up 15% of the population

Cyber-Enhanced Humans had a variety of abilities pending on type of enhancements they gained. Superior strength, speed, vision capabilities, and built in weapons. While cybernetic enhancements were superior to others in combat repairs were costly and never automatically. Companies were researching ways to improve this factor, but research was proving to be prohibited by a lack of technology. Cybernetic enhancements for the others are possible but unlikely. Vampires and Werebeasts only have a 10% compatibility for cybernetics and even then only one enhancement. Mutants are worst with a 5% compatibility again with only one enhancement. Godlings have zero compatibility. Cyber-Enhanced makes up 27% of the population.

Mutants then there were those simply affected by the vast hazards to include bio, radiation, chemical, and natural ones that caused humans to simply mutate into different beings. It was a recent development. It first occurred 19 years ago in 2033, and it was something humans were born with. While mutation was experienced on humans by cooperations all experiments ended with their patient's death. As a result mutants are either rejected or embraced in the world of cooperations. Some rift raft exists, the third group, called the rejects, mostly this is where the mutants live and those who are hurt or so sick they are seen as useless. Few are attended to who can't prove themselves useful to the cooperations. Some mutants appear as normal humans while others are obviously a mutant. Mutants have bizarre powers, nothing that can effect an entire building or large groups of people. However some of those abilities have proved quite potent in some way or another. Mutants make up 0.1% of the population

Godlings is the last group. They are physically double in size of a normal human and as a result incredibly strong. They however are not fast nor do they process superior senses. Their aging process is believed to have slowed down by 80% but they do not require special nourishment besides eight times the normal food a normal sized human needs to survive. Cybernetic enhancements simply do not work for them. Their intellectual ability is superior to the others and have made and created most of the latest technology and advancements. Their appearance is more perfect than a human's too. Hence their name despite their lack of physical capabilities. Godlings as a result are usually the elite, but not always. Godlings make up 0.01% of the population

A group in Japan the Fuzaki Group recently bypassed previous barriers and created two new very deadly types, the world of cooperations have dubbed them the Draconic and Demonic beings. Because the Fuzaki group managed to created these behemoths they have decided to start forcing other cooperations to simply belong to theirs as slaves. All of them have bat like wings that allows them to fly and they can fly extremely fast. Some of scales and power of elemental forces that have proven to be devastating, they are Draconic. The Demonic ones, their elites appear to be mostly human, their looks are superior to humans and they possess super strength, speed and enhanced senses. They even manage to possess a unique ability much like mutants. All of which despite technology advances still in existent gives them an extreme advantage. They all have regenerative abilities that make them difficult to kill.

Cooperations are scrambling their best together to take on the Fuzaki Group even making alliances with each other. Some are even considering the rejects as possible allies. But will their resistance be on time? Will they be able to take out the Fuzaki Group or will they become the Fuzaki Group's next victim? Who is to say, now the large cooperations must depend on what talent they can gather to take on the growing emerging super power.
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Wed, 20 Sep 2017 04:06:35 GMT[OOC: No bio needed, just jump into the thread, everyone is human with no special powers, but you can have expert skills. Let development of our characters occur in the IC posts.]

IC:

Legends say their's a legendary food out there, perhaps it's even a beverage that grants immortality to those who partake of it. Ambrosia is the name of it and its whereabouts are unknown.

The Scarlet Pirates seek that legendary item and many more, but their captain Scarlet is especially interested in obtaining the mythical Ambrosia to eat or drink for herself. For now she must be content to seek other myths and treasures. Most of her crew treasures come from ransacking Rathuria and Lasuran. Both countries have impressive Navies but their merchant vessels also contain the best cargo to sell.

Scarlet and her crew are some best pirates that can be found and dare take on the toughest assignments. Supposedly Captain Scarlet has more than one ship and she's out in Tarka a outlaw island home to pirates and thieves. No one is in charge on Tarka supposedly so murders and thievery are not uncommon. Unfortunately no one is really well off on Tarka and many seek better lives by joining pirate Captain crews. Still those who wish to live on Tarka continue to do so, some make good money selling information from other pirates or on merchant movements, perhaps even legends. Scarlet and a few of her crew members, since numbers are safe is recruiting in one of the many bar establishments, this one is called the Harpy's Talon.

Scarlet set at the bar, with her vibrant red head hidden under a hood so no one would recognize her. Scarlet's true name was lost long ago, well she knew it, but Scarlet suited her, it was the name sake of her blood red hair. People believed it was red because of all those who died that defied her and their blood stained it. While she was hiding from those who might come join her crew she wanted to measure them up for herself. She had one of her senior quarter masters Ruc sitting at the table with the sign for hiring new crew members. Others of her crew were sitting around in the bar too, more obvious than her. Only Ruc knew she was there too. Scarlet was pretty good at blending in, even hiding from her own men. Ruc would take his cues from her when he interviewed new potential crew members. Scarlet was hoping for a few good new pirate hands.

Ruc was nearing his 50's even had one blind eye, though he didn't wear a patch over it. He believed its dull gray glaze intimidate others, it was also why he bore his large forearms with skull tattoos on it. He even had a black widow tattooed on the top of his bald head. Personally Ruc did not see battle that often, he usually coordinated supplies and repairs for Scarlet's ships and didn't embark out on to the sea. Those coming knew when he came came to Turik he stuck around for a bit. They also knew he worked with Captain Scarlet, which had gotten him in trouble at times. Luckily he did know how to fight and run with the best of them. Usually he tried to avoid fights. Each fight could mean your last, and he wasn't interested in dying, he was a survivor. Besides he wanted to help Scarlet out as much as possible, she helped out of a few pinches in his past. Scarlet was younger than him, still she must be in her late 20's or early 30's and already 5 to 10 years experience as a Captain. But even Ruc didn't know her before she was a Captain, no one seemed to. She was just one of the many Pirate Captains one day and for the last few years considered the most fierce and respected of the bunch not to mention the most likely one to get you rich. However, Scarlet's crew had high risks so few who signed on return. Luckily pirates willing took on high risks so Ruc expected many new pirates who want to sign up. Perhaps even some veterans.
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